Me and others of my profession have a good understanding of how people seek information, how they react to different elements of digital products, and how they use such products. With this knowledge, I can greatly improve your website or application so users would love it more and it would serve business goals better.

What you get when having a good interaction designer in the team is that your products are not made of standard decisions. Instead, I try to anticipate how the user will really us…

Me and others of my profession have a good understanding of how people seek information, how they react to different elements of digital products, and how they use such products. With this knowledge, I can greatly improve your website or application so users would love it more and it would serve business goals better.

What you get when having a good interaction designer in the team is that your products are not made of standard decisions. Instead, I try to anticipate how the user will really use the product, how he would expect it to work and be organized. Then I can come up with solutions that suit this exact case much better. Work of an interaction designer greatly reduces the risk that the team would develop a feature (or product) which customers won't like and won't use.

I follow a design process described in Jesse Garrett's book "Elements of User Experience". At the level of strategy, I discuss business and user goals with the client. Then I use my knowledge of Information Architecture and Interaction Design to determine what features and content the project should have to meet those goals and structure the features and content in a way the user would expect them to be. Then I build an interactive prototype - a set of detailed wireframes of every page, linked to each other and imitating the behavior of the end product. I use Axure for this purpose.

When approved, the wireframes should go to a visual designer. This process is much better than putting visual design first and thinking how you should make something eye-catchy, before figuring out how users will interact with it and devising best ways for it to work.

It's better that I start my work early on, when there is only a concept. This way I can put your project onto the right track from the beginning.

I'm 7 years in web development overall. I have a background in project management, SEO, content management and linguistics.

Axure Prototype for User Testing

“Michael is a skilled person and good communicator. A real ace with Axure.”

4.55

UX / UI Expert needed to review a website wireframe

Aug 2012 – Nov 2012

3 hrs
@ $19.00/hr

Earned $57

“Added a nice 'second opinion' to UX work already completed.”

4.45

Wire Framing Expert Needed

Oct 2012 – Oct 2012

2 hrs
@ $19.00/hr

Earned $38

“5+ Michael is amazing - our next project together starts today. His insight and ability to take words and turn them into simple and useful wireframes is unmatched.”

5.00

Axure UI Design

Apr 2012 – Jun 2012

21 hrs
@ $14.44/hr

Earned $303

“Michael was a joy to work with. He was proactive and pushed back when needed but delivered all that was asked. He would often do more hours than logged out of professional pride.I hope to be working with him again soon.”

5.00

Axure

May 2012 – Jun 2012

Fixed Price
$125

“this was a breath of fresh air. i was able to jot down the requirements and give a deadline the deliverable was in my inbox with no errors and on time. will use again.”